BRENT v. STATE

No. 1182, September Term, 1984.

63 Md. App. 197 (1985)

492 A.2d 637

THEODORE BRENT v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

May 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Kopolow and Jose F. Anderson, Asst. Public Defenders, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Baltimore, Public Defender on the brief), for appellant.

Valerie V. Cloutier, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Warren B. Duckett, State's Atty. for Anne Arundel County and Gerald K. Anders, Deputy State's Atty. for Anne Arundel County on the brief, Annapolis), for appellee.

Argued before WEANT, ALPERT and KARWACKI, JJ.


KARWACKI, Judge.

We are here called upon to review the propriety of a trial judge's refusal to recuse himself after learning of a defendant's prior willingness to plead guilty, and having presided at guilty plea proceedings of his co-defendants, at which the trial judge heard statements of facts implicating the defendant.

The appellant, Theodore Brent, was indicted on September 19, 1983 on charges of burglary and felony theft. Following a bench trial on July...

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